com.lowagie.text.pdf.hyphenation

Class Hyphen

public class Hyphen extends Object implements Serializable

This class represents a hyphen. A 'full' hyphen is made of 3 parts: the pre-break text, post-break text and no-break. If no line-break is generated at this position, the no-break text is used, otherwise, pre-break and post-break are used. Typically, pre-break is equal to the hyphen character and the others are empty. However, this general scheme allows support for cases in some languages where words change spelling if they're split across lines, like german's 'backen' which hyphenates 'bak-ken'. BTW, this comes from TeX.

Author: Carlos Villegas

Field Summary
StringnoBreak
StringpostBreak
StringpreBreak
static longserialVersionUID
Constructor Summary
Hyphen(String pre, String no, String post)
Hyphen(String pre)
Method Summary
StringtoString()

Field Detail

noBreak

public String noBreak

postBreak

public String postBreak

preBreak

public String preBreak

serialVersionUID

private static final long serialVersionUID

Constructor Detail

Hyphen

Hyphen(String pre, String no, String post)

Hyphen

Hyphen(String pre)

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()